“So in May [the BBC]‘ll be happy for outside websites to dip in and take our headlines. We’re also adding new feeds, like one with the most recently published stories, and still to come will be an RSS search telling you when reports have been published ab
(tags: cool geekery)
“[Mandy Amano] is a comic book freak, [...]
Are you a proud recipient of the Pimp Juice Scholarship?
(tags: funny weird)
The Tribune accidentally identifies the wrong person as a mobster.
“I opened it up and I said, ‘God, what am I doing in the paper?’”
(tags: funny chicago)
“Banana cream-filled Twinkies–selling two for a nickel–debuted as part of the Hostess baked-goods line. During World War II, when [...]
gizmag Article: The Umbrella reinvented - fully retractable umbrella wins design award
“The cool thing about it is that the canopy retracts all the way inside, right into the body of the umbrella and at the same time it squeezes the water out onto the floor.”
(tags: cool as.hell goodideas)
Sun-Times Watch: Chicago Tribune Considers Going Tabloid
I’d encourage them to do so. The only reason I go with the Sun-Times over the Trib is because the Trib is impossible to read on the subway.
(tags: chicago interesting goodideas)
Warren Ellis: “I fully expect the film version of WATCHMEN to be a fucking musical.”
(tags: comics movies funny)
Yes, [...]
And, on another note, as a legal assistant — a male legal secretary — I have to admit, I love the utter bizarreness of this:
I am filled with anger at the Vatican right now. Perhaps even rage. I am a 30-year-old straight man. But I have known gay people for, at the very least, 17 years. I met a gay student in 1988, when I attended my freshman year of high school and joined the [...]
I found an interesting article in the Tribune the other day. Evidently President Bush violates IRS regulations when filing his tax return:
Home is where the money is when it comes time for President Bush to file his taxes.
Home is not the White House, and home is not the range of his Crawford, Texas, ranch.
Home [...]
“But get this, you can save an Automator script as a Finder ‘plug-in,’ which is Apple’s terminology for a CM (contextual menu) item, accessible via a right-click of the mouse.”
(tags: cool as.hell apple geekery)
John Kass writes an absolutely moronic and meandering column about why being in the Hitler Youth isn’t all that bad.
(tags: stupid as.hell [...]
Recently submitted to the Sun-Times:
Save the Weather Service!
Well, it appears that we have a government agency doing its job just too well — so much so that private industry has managed to convince a senator to neutralize it. The National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 was introduced by Sen. Rick Santorum last week, [...]
Hey, if you’d like to e-mail the Pope, his e-mail address is benedictxvi.
It’s pretty brave of the owner of benedictxvi to put the e-mail address of benedictxvi out on the Internet.
After all, putting benedictxvi out onto the Internet opens the owner of the benedictxvi e-mail address up for a lot of spam.
I hope that doesn’t [...]
Jerry Brown: “Kerrey’s not taking the plunge, but there is always Bill Clinton. He would have a ball as mayor.”
(tags: funny politics)
Shakespeare’s Sister: “Pat Robertson, who, as I found out care of The Gadflyer today, owns the Ice Capades!”
Trippy. Surreal. What the hell?
(tags: funny weird as.hell politics homophobes)
A wonderful moment when Alan Colmes [...]
A School of Visual Arts Grad Remakes the Pill Bottle
Check out the new ClearRx system Target will be using. It’s pretty frickin’ cool!
(tags: goodideas amazing as.hell interesting cool)
Good news: You can buy shelves that look like Tetris blocks.
Bad news: They cost about $7,000. What, are you frickin’ kiddin me?
(tags: games cool stupid goodideas [...]
Google Satellite View of My Alma Mater
Originally uploaded by WCityMike.
This is a view of Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales — well, I suppose you could now call it DeSales University. I figured I would stitch some aerial photographs from Google Maps Satellite. [...]
I ran across this on Boing Boing today — it’s a video of a professor talking to his class about his stolen laptop.
It has to be seen to be believed — I actually feel sorry for the thief, if it’s true. If it’s not, my hat is off to the professor for a truly [...]
According to Cardinal Francis George, Chicago’s cardinal, via ABC News:
Benedict himself referred to his tenure in comments to cardinals just after his election, when he explained his choice of the name Benedict XVI, the pope who served from 1914-22 and had worked to prevent World War I during his brief papacy.
Chicago Cardinal Francis George said [...]
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